Hermann Prey: The Schubert Song Cycles
Hermann Prey, Helmut Deutsch (piano) & Leonard Hokanson (piano)
Schwanengesang sees Prey summoning all his energy and focus for a performance of visionary insight and concentration. Helmut Deutsch takes over [from Hokanson] for Winterreise, and immediately...
Hermann Prey: The Schubert Song Cycles
Hermann Prey, Helmut Deutsch (piano) & Leonard Hokanson (piano)
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Schwanengesang sees Prey summoning all his energy and focus for a performance of visionary insight and concentration. Helmut Deutsch takes over [from Hokanson] for Winterreise, and immediately...
About
Prey´s legendary Schubert song cycle for the first time on BD. Prey, best known as a master of German art song, was a worldwide celebrated baritone with an international career over 45 years at the MET, Bayreuth, Salzburg, Japan, La Scala, etc.
“In his finest interpretations Hermann Prey sang Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin with a captivatingly natural phrasing that flowed organically like a river and as such was the very opposite of the more intellectual approach of his rival, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.” DIE ZEIT Online, 1998
Running Time Total: 252 mins (Songs: 202 mins + Bonus: 50 mins)
Picture 4:3, HD
Sound DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM 2.0
Subtitles German (original language), English, French, Spanish // Bonus: English
Contents and tracklist
- Hermann Prey (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano) & Leonard Hokanson (piano)
- Hermann Prey (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano) & Leonard Hokanson (piano)
- Hermann Prey (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano) & Leonard Hokanson (piano)
Awards and reviews
November 2010
Schwanengesang sees Prey summoning all his energy and focus for a performance of visionary insight and concentration. Helmut Deutsch takes over [from Hokanson] for Winterreise, and immediately the bonding is more rewarding, the pacing revelatory, and the ache of the mortally wounded heart palpable.